They’re looking for love in all the wrong faces.
A Florida model who claims Match.com used her picture for fake profiles is apparently in good company. She says some of Hollywood’s hottest celebrities have been used for the ruse.
Yuliana Avalo’s $1.5 billion class action suit against the Internet-dating giant claims the site has also been duped by fake profiles featuring the likenesses of Rob Lowe, Lindsay Lohan, Al Pacino and Jessica Biel.
The pictures demonstrate that Match.com is “not adept at screening profiles as they claimed in their statement and that there is merit to the plaintiff’s lawsuit,” Avalo’s lawyer, Evan Spencer, alleged.
The suit claims Match.com has defrauded subscribers out of users fees and subjected lonely hearts to financial and emotional heartbreak.
A profile with “Parks and Recreation” star Lowe’s picture lists the dater as a 30-year-old man from Yakima, Wash. The profile with the Pacino picture says he’s a 48-year-old man from Dallas.
The Biel picture is attached to a profile of a 34-year-old woman from Alabama, who likes fishing, hunting and camping.
The Lohan picture accompanies a profile of 30-year-old Missouri woman who’s looking for someone “who can make me laugh with a good joke.”
The stars and their representatives did not returns calls for comment.
The suit seeks $1 billion in punitive damages and $500 million in compensatory damages for non-members whose photographs were wrongly used by the dating sites.
Match.com did not return calls for comment.